Primary angioplasty or thrombolysis? a topical parable

AUTOR(ES)

Bogaty, Peter

FONTE

BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.

RESUMO

Primary angioplasty is being touted as a revolutionary treatment that should supersede thrombolysis in modern management of acute myocardial infarction. Would our perspective be different if angioplasty had been developed first?

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